LunaticCentruroides wrote:
Hahaha the "drones"
I love your post.
Thank you LC! Reading what you write is almost like I am writing it myself. I am pretty sure you are the same cognitive type as me. I thought of several things I do that inevitably gets me in trouble with women.
1. Have you heard the song "Human Behavior" by Bjork? (she is the same type as me). I get wrapped up in the exchange of "Human Behavior". I love being appreciated and I can be way too "effusive" back. This sometimes is confusing to the person on the other side of the relationship. I would love just to be open and myself... no between the lines with me. That desire gets me in trouble.
2. I don't look in eyes unless I find someone interesting. This is evidently seductive. I call this "animaling". Basically people of our type are "more animal than human".
Most aspies don't have the hardware (certain mirror neurons) for learning culture (forming the TOM). Most ADDers have that hardware (can build the TOM) but don't have the hardware to run culture (TOM) properly (too little pre-frontal white matter). We don't have either... and that balances out in some strange way. We look very normal so people think what we are doing maps into some kind of non-verbal communication. The way we look into eyes turns people on and can confuse them.
I was "animaled" about a year ago by a woman your age who is ECUS. It is a real kick in the pants when it happens to me. I think it must be crazy for culturals (NTs).
Another thing I have noticed about our type is that we tend to have very symmetrical faces (we are good looking to most people).
All the women I know that are my type and are somewhat somatic have men following them, falling for them... etc...
They all animal men like crazy too, lol. I think it is part of being a drone
Actually ECU is kind of a super drone.

Warum spricht fast alle hier Deutch? Schade das ich mein Deutsch verlernt habe
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I may use terms that are part of my theory of "Functional Cognitive Typology". Diagnosis is always a mixed bag but generally they map to the cognitive type when in dysfunction:
C = Cultural (NT), EC = Extra-Cultural (ASD)
U = understanding ~ ADD/ADHD
A = acceptance ~ baseline, normal
T = trust ~ possible schizotypal disorder
R = respect ~ NPD
C = cerebral (adrenaline averse), S = somatic (adrenaline seeking)
I am ECUC/S (cusp cerebral/somatic)